Elizabeth Terrill Bentley (January 1, 1908-November 18, 1963) was an American spy for the Soviet Union from 1938 until 1945. In 1945 she defected from the Communist Party and Soviet intelligence and became an informer for the U.S. She exposed two networks of spies, ultimately naming over 80 Americans who had engaged in espionage for the Soviets.

Khidir Hamza is an Iraqi scientist who worked for Saddam Hussein's nuclear programme in the 1980s and early 1990s. Following the Gulf War, he went into exile in the United States and provided evidence to Western intelligence agencies suggesting that Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programmes were active and ongoing. Dr. Hamza first came to the United States in the 1960s, attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Florida State University, …

Vitaly Yurchenko (b. 1936) was a KGB agent in the Soviet Union. In 1985, after twenty-five years of service in the KGB, he defected to the United States during an assignment in Rome. In the following interrogations by the CIA, he accused two American agents of working for the KGB, Ronald Pelton and Edward Lee Howard. While Pelton was later convicted, Howard fled the US before he could be questioned.

Igor Nikolayevich Larionov is a retired Russian ice hockey player. Along with Viacheslav Fetisov, he was instrumental in breaking the barrier that stopped Soviet players from joining the NHL. He primarily played the center position, and is considered one of the best passers of all time.

Munir Redfa (1934 - 2000) was an Iraqi Fighter Pilot, of Iraqi-Assyrian origin who defected to Israel in 1966 by flying a MiG 21 belonging to the Iraqi Air Force to Israel. In what is considered one of the Mossad's most successful operations, Redfa's entire extended family was smuggled safely out of Iraq to Israel. The hijacked MiG fighter was later loaned to the United States for testing and intelligence analysis.

William John Christopher Vassall was a British civil servant who, under pressure of blackmail, spied for the Soviet Union. In World War II, Vassall worked as a photographer for the Royal Air Force. After the war, he became a clerk at the Admiralty. In 1954, he was posted as Naval Attaché at the British embassy in Moscow. The year after he arrived, Vassall (who was homosexual) was encouraged by the KGB to become extremely drunk at a party, …

No Kum-Sok (later Kenneth Rowe) (born c. 1932) was a lieutenant in the North Korean Air Force during the Korean War who defected to South Korea. In 1953, he flew his MiG-15 to the Kimpo air base in South Korea, claiming that he wanted to get away from the "red deceit". He received a $100,000 reward for defecting with his aircraft, which he claimed to have not heard about prior to his defection.

Rainer Rupp (born 1945 in Saarlouis, Germany) was a top spy who worked under the pseudonyms Mosel and later Topas for the GDR in the NATO headquarters in Brussels from 1977 until 1989, releasing documents of the highest importance to the Eastern Bloc. Rupp grew up in West Germany with strong leftist political leanings. In 1968, as a student in Mainz, work as a spy for the GDR was suggested to him, and he agreed out of conviction.

Lee Soon Ok is a prominent defector from North Korea, now living in South Korea. After escaping with her son via China to South Korea, she dedicated her life to exposing the numerous atrocities of the government of North Korea. She has written a memoir of her life in North Korea and subsequent 7-year imprisonment in the Kaechon concentration camp on false charges. Her website can be found here.

Józef Światło was a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Public Security of Poland (deputy director of 10th Department). After the death of Stalin and the arrest of Lavrentiy Beria in 1953, afraid for his own life, he defected to the West on 5 December of that year in Berlin. This event shook the Polish United Workers' Party, caused the reform of the Polish security apparatus and was one of the factors leading to the liberalization of the Polish October.

Alla Sizova is a twentieth-century ballet dancer, best known for her work with the Kirov Ballet. She was the preferred dance partner of Rudolph Nureyev before his defection, and Nureyev is rumoured to have said in his later years that Sizova was the only thing that could conceivably entice him back to the Soviet Union. Amongst other roles, Sizova received great acclaim as Princess Aurora in the 1964 Kirov production Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty opposite Yuri Solovyov.

Emmanuel Habyarimana is a former Rwandan soldier and politician. Habyarimana, an ethnic Hutu, was a former member of the Rwandan Armed Forces in the Hutu-dominated state of Juvénal Habyarimana. Following the successful conquest of Rwanda by the RPF, he joined the newly constituted Rwandan Defence Forces and held the rank of colonel. In 1997 he was made Minister of State for Defence in the Rwandan government. In 2000, he became Rwanda's Minister of Defence, …

Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov (15 February, 1907 - 14 June, 1991) was a member of the Soviet Union's clandestine services who became famous in 1954 for his defection to Australia.

Roberto "Tony" Urrutia was an Olympic weightlifter, born 1957 in Cuba. He later defected to, and competed for, the United States.

Oskar Pastior (October 20, 1927 - October 4, 2006) was Romanian-born German poet and translator. He was the only German member of Oulipo. Born into a Transylvanian Saxon family in Sibiu, he was deported in 1945 to the Gulag by Soviet authorities. He returned to Romania in 1949, and started training in German studies at the University of Bucharest in 1955. After graduation, he worked for the German language service of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company.

William John Donaldson (b. September 24, 1958, in Los Angeles) is an international master of chess. He has been an IM since 1983. He is one of the most popular chess personalities in the world. In addition to being a strong player, he is an author, organizer, journalist and chess politician. He was Captain of the US Team in six Chess Olympiads from 1986 to 1996, including the 1986 World Chess Olympiad in Dubai, …

Václav Nedomanský, is a former hockey forward. He is best known as the first hockey player to defect to North America to play.

Alexander Gomelsky (January 18, 1928 in Kronstadt, USSR - August 16, 2005 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet and Russian basketball coach. Gomelsky began his coaching career in 1948 in Leningrad with LGS Spartak. In 1953 he became the coach of ASK Riga, an army club, leading the team to five Soviet league titles and three consecutive European Cups from 1958 to 1960. In 1969 he was appointed coach of CSKA Moscow until 1980, …

Gerald W. Abrams (born 1939) is an American television producer and the father of J. J. Abrams. He graduated from Penn State University. Abrams began his television career in 1965 with WCBS TV as an account executive. In 1971 he was named General Sales Manager of KCBS, a CBS-owned station in Los Angeles. In 1973 Abrams joined the Jozak Company as Vice President of Creative Affairs. He then produced a GE Theater Presentation, The Secret Life of John Chapman.

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Werner is the key person in our defection scenario. A professional agent with the East-German Intelligence Service (STASI) he was a case officer directly in charge of 7 agents located across West-Germany, as well as Supervisor of approximately 35 employees. The mission of the department Lt. Stiller worked for was high-technology espionage. Similar to industrial espionage but sponsored at the state level.

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Viktor Kuprin is a writer known for his Kosmosflot science-fiction series published in 365 Tomorrows and Ray Gun Revival. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, and served as a military journalist in the 22nd Bomber Wing (B-52), Strategic Air Command, during the Cold War.